AMD is apparently working on its second CPU for extreme overclocking, since the nearly four-year old Phenom II Black Edition TWKR 42. Being referred to as "Centurion FX," the chip is said to be based on the eight-core FX "Vishera" silicon, featuring an unlocked multiplier, but born out of some extremely careful chip selection by AMD. How careful you ask? For starters, these chips should be capable of running at 5.00 GHz with just air-cooling, with potential for more, on better cooling.

If the TWKR 42 is anything to go by, Centurion FX should be made specifically for extreme overclockers looking for clock-speed and multi-core performance records, the chip should come with rather low clock speed, and unlocked multiplers, so overclockers could tweak it themselves. The chips should cost four times the average FX-8350, nearing $800, which is "affordable," considering the four-figure prices some of the golden Core i7 K-series Ivy Bridge chips command on online marketplaces.

Either people are trolling or are blatantly missing the damn point. These are highly rare binned chips that are going to be sold purely for overclocking enthusiasts wanting to break records. Doubtful they are intended for desktop use, unless someone has too much money and really wants an AMD chip.

Either people are trolling or are blatantly missing the damn point. These are highly rare binned chips that are going to be sold purely for overclocking enthusiasts wanting to break records. Doubtful they are intended for desktop use, unless someone has too much money and really wants an AMD chip.

These chips better be in plentiful number, and actually be sold to the public this time. The first was not, and was a pure marketing move. It didn't get them sales back then, it is definitely NOT going to now.

When I first heard the "Centurion FX" rumor, I was sincerely hoping it would be one of their sever processors rebranded, specifically one of their chips that offers more than 8-cores. Sort of was hoping it'd be one of their 16-core models. Now we'll end up with some lackluster gaming benchmarks when the chip is finally released, but, you know, they'll probably break a clock-rate record. Not that that means much when it doesn't linearly correlate to performance.

Maybe AMD saw the burst of recent 'enthusiast grade parts' (Titan, 7970X2/7990, ARESII, 690 come to mind) and they're hoping some consumers will pay that price premium for such a processor.

I really want AMD to succeed and to my mind they've long represented the "value" option. I'd really like to see them gain some footing against Intel, but it's really hard to say what will get them there.

Reading some of the comments here made me think that this place has nothing to do with computers at all.

The chip is only intended for overclocking and nothing else, following some of the comments I would say PD/BD >>> IB/SB when it comes to overclocking.

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Youd have it wrong then since amd hold the highest oc on a commercial chip title, intel are climbing though and these chips won't be widely available, and being essentially a garaunteed ocin beast itll only be for competitive ocin contests/contest anyway makeing it useless to me bring the steam knobeds(amd) not this.

Unfortunately it's true.
I'm big AMD supporter (based on idea of supporting the underdog to keep the market competitive), but the grim truth is that for gaming, the awesomesauce TWKR will probably be still worse than two-and-half-years-old 2600K.

Unfortunately it's true.
I'm big AMD supporter (based on idea of supporting the underdog to keep the market competitive), but the grim truth is that for gaming, the awesomesauce TWKR will probably be still worse than two-and-half-years-old 2600K.

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Obviously no proof of that but I know what you mean
I truly believe Steamroller will be AMD's game changer that should be enough to at the very least compete with Intel's current offerings Price for Price . In other words, no more hot AMD FX CPU deals. I can see AMD's high end FX-8550 (Steamroller ) at least double the price of the FX-8350 at launch. Yes IMO